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    Summary

    The city doesn’t care who you were before the lights turned on. It runs on energy, data, and attention, and it takes whatever you give it.

    Leø Vizier is known for cybertech—What stays buried is the rune work. Ancient symbols banned after they burned too many people alive. Her father taught her how to draw them, how one wrong line could end everything. He proved it himself. Now Leø keeps the runes locked away in a private library, using them anyway, mixing them with machines that were never meant to hold that kind of power.

    Rocky learned early that sound can keep people alive. As a DJ, he fills rooms and holds them together, even as the losses he carries eat at him quietly. Jas owns the club where deals are made and fights almost start. Joon lives under constant eyes, selling a version of herself while protecting the real one with teeth. They’ve been together since they were kids, long before fame gave them something to lose.

    The past doesn’t stay buried. Thugger is back in the city, louder, stronger, surrounded by people who believe in him. Ten years ago, they beat him and walked away. Now he’s here to take what they built, piece by piece, and make sure they remember why they should’ve finished the job.

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